Bound by Duty

Bodyguard X CEO.
Age gap.
Obsessive.
Adult.

They told me to protect her.

Not to touch her.
Not to want her.
Not to feel anything for her.

But from the moment she looked at me with those defiant, spoiled, fire-filled eyes-I knew I was already too far gone.

Aliana Sterling.
The heiress. The troublemaker. The living, breathing chaos I was assigned to keep safe.
And the last woman I should ever look at the way I do.

She's all pearls and poison.
A walking contradiction wrapped in luxury and recklessness.

And me?
I've killed men for less than what she makes me feel.
I've walked through warzones calmer than I am when another man touches her.

I keep my distance.
I play the role.
The silent shadow, the bodyguard, the man who follows orders.

But one day... I won't.
One day, she'll push too far, smile too sweet, cry in a way I can't ignore-and that will be the day I stop pretending.

Because she doesn't belong to the world.

Not anymore.

She belongs to me.